King James Version
1 Samuel 29:1 in the King James Version says “Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Je...” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 29 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.”
1 Samuel 29:1 · KJV
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all their armies”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
“and the Israelites”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“pitched”
H2583properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or s
“by a fountain”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which is in Jezreel”
H3157jizreel, the name of two places in palestine and of two israelites
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